From Birmingham
THE BIRMINGHAM STUDIO ORCHESTRA, con. ducted by JOSEPH LEWIS
THE plot of this Comic Opera (which has recently been revived on the London stage) is very unreal, but very amusing, and the music is particularly sparkling.
The title refers to womenkind and their alleged fickleness. The Overture is a lengthy piece of vivacious, care-free music, exactly the right thing to ring up the curtain on so gay o ploi.
THE Suite (the Composer's Op. 6S) was published in 1909, when Coleridge- Taylor was thirty-four. It was originally intended as a work for Children, and is dedicated to ' Little Sunshine,' his name for a child who made a friend of him whilst ho was at work on it...
It consists of settings of six of Thomas Moore 's lyrics: (1) The Magic Mirror; (2) The Fairy Boat; (3) To Rosa; (4) Love and Hymen; (5) The Watchman ; (6) Say, what shall we dance ?